Masayuki Fukasawa, a veteran journalist at a Japanese-language newspaper in Sao Paulo, has taken inspiration from his own migrant story to compile a history of Japanese settlement in Brazil over the past century. “I wanted to incorporate into modern history the story of how ...

Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of dispatches written by Mark Twain when the author was a young newsman in San Francisco. In the letters, the man who would write “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and its sequel, ...

Iranian authorities closed the Mardom-e Emrooz newspaper after it published a quote from U.S. actor George Clooney saying “I am Charlie” in reference to the attack on a French satirical newspaper, Tasnim News Agency reported yesterday. The country’s public prosecutor ordered the newspaper to ...

About 70 percent of the public is interested in issues related to revising the Constitution, a survey by the Japan Press Research Institute says. According to the survey, the results of which were released Saturday, 22.5 percent of the respondents are very interested in ...

To encourage Hiroshima residents sheltering in the city’s elementary school following last week’s deadly landslides, two students launched the first edition of an illustrated handwritten wall newspaper. The newspaper was launched Sunday by 12-year-old Hiroyo Miyamoto, who is in her first year of junior ...

Japan lodged a protest Wednesday with China over a newspaper’s depiction of exploding mushroom clouds in a map of Japan, calling it offensive. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that Japan, as the only nation to have suffered atomic attacks, will “never tolerate” ...

A local newspaper in Gunma Prefecture issued a special edition made of silk on Sunday to mark the Saturday listing of the Tomioka Silk Mill as a World Cultural Heritage site. The Jomo Shimbun newspaper produced 100 silk special editions measuring 50 by 40 ...

Since May 2011, a newspaper published by high school students in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, has been updating readers on the situation in Fukushima Prefecture. The series, “Connecting Fukushima,” in the Hikone Higashi High School newspaper also features people in Shiga who assist in the ...

The Tokyo head office of Japan’s largest daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun, failed to declare about ¥69 million ($660,000) in income over three business years to March and has been told to pay back taxes, its parent said Friday. While the total included accounting errors, ...

As editor-in-chief of the Rito Keizai Shimbun, an online newspaper dedicated to covering the cultures and industries of Japan’s hundreds of small islands, Atsuko Isamoto will sometimes spend as much as half a month on one. Isamoto, 30, founded the site at ritokei.com in ...

Ever since 1897 The Japan Times has reported daily in English on people, places and goings-on in and beyond this country. During those 116 years, our articles have often included information that never made it into the Japanese-language press — as in 1934, when ...